Phil 4.11.16

Page 907: While the relationship between human-like trust and outcomes is stronger in most cases, system-like trust still matters (see Figure 2). This may be because, in part, Facebook is a tool that helps one do social networking. I think this is important. When a tool has high system trust in a social context, it disappears, while the social aspect comes to the fore. This is true even if the tool is performing hidden tasks that influence the social interaction. This is related to relevance and pertinence, I think. As long as the social cies are presented in a way that feels pertinent (and is reliable?), it’s trusted explicitly as a system and implicitly as a player in the social interaction.

I need to touch on this, but I’m not looking at computers as social actors, I’m looking at how the actions of trusted systems can both monitor and influence individuals (human and otherwise) within connectivist systems.

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TODOs in GoogleCSE2 buildQueryObjects() and buildNewQueryObjects():

Modify to take SmartTerm Object
If there is a valid term, then create the query with po.getNamePermutations()

Finished. Building a new (small!) set of people to test with

Discussed how order affects search results with Andy. Need to think about that

Had an idea about running overspecified queries that return nothing, then backing off term by term until a hit. Running through the permutations that have very small numbers of hits looking for common hits might be a good way of getting good results?